OFF: ALL HEIL THE _BEER_

[Carl E. Anderson]

On fre 5 dec 1997 05.42 +0000 "Hoarse Whisperer"
<beautiful_foot at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> ("Peculier", BTW)
>
> I could never read to well after a few jars, so forgive my typo.

     Common error this, even in the UK.  The word has nothing to do with
"strangeness" (as in "peculiar").  A "peculier" was a particular kind of
church officer ...

hail the ale!
Carl

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/